United States Capitol, Washington D.C. All cameras are on the luxury car approaching the crowd of journalists: entirely black, windows included, with only a few highlights and glowing LEDs replacing the exhaust pipe. There is no human driver: the car[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thrake, 53.000 light-years from Earth This is a sacred day: flocks of doves and starships dance in the sky in celebration, entire valleys have been transmutated into endless fields of flowers, and triumphal music is playing everywhere. Enyo looks at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Antarctica Max Black a.k.a. Quantum blows on his hands to warm them; he’s wearing a thermal suit, but the environment isn’t forgiving and he’s saving his strength before he transforms into energy. He watches Noriko Null release a couple dozen[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Midgard Station, Antarctica In front of a large window over a frozen valley of Earth’s coldest continent, Noriko Null is relaxing inside a bathtub of expensive hinoki wood. It was perhaps a little indulgent to include a traditional Japanese bath[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Midgard Station, Antarctica Outside of these walls, a human would die of exposure in minutes. But here it’s warm enough that Noriko Null takes off her green leather jacket, remaining in her black T-shirt with a white Ø symbol as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The bed is uncomfortable, and Noriko Null soon finds out she can’t move. Her eyes take a few seconds to adjust to the brightness, and when they do the first thing she sees is her mother’s face. <You look good,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Leiko Tanaka observes the fight between Torn and the Winter King from the bridge of the monarch’s mothership, concentrating on the data analyzed by the computers. Even with the incredibly advanced technology of the Lar, the powers of a Demon[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Earth’s orbit What used to be empty space just a few decades ago is now littered with hundreds of satellites, commercial and not. Today there’s something quite unusual among them: a solid block of ice, holding a woman. Until she[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Four Seasons Hotel, Cairo Yong-Su Kim helps Noriko Null put on her green leather jacket, while she tries to avoid making eye contact. She’s following the news: they’re talking about the sudden appearance of an alien structure above Djoser’s Pyramid,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Neptune, 3 billion miles from Earth The blue planet is a beautiful and majestic sight rarely witnessed by mortals, almost four times larger than Earth yet seventeen times more massive. Leiko Tanaka never imagined that she would see it with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
